Arknights Endfield Gacha System, Explained

The gacha system in Arknights Endfield deviates from what players are used to seeing. It's a little similar to the original game, but for the most part, it does things quite differently from what one would expect. There are some good and bad things in how Endfield treats its gacha system, and every player will want to know how this works before they dive deep into the game or heavily invest into it.

Endfield Gacha Banners and Rates

Endfield has three different character gacha banners (called Headhunting banners):

New Horizons Headhunting is for new players; it guarantees a standard 6-star character at 40 pulls
Chartered Headhunting is the limited-time banner that changes regularly
Basic Headhunting is the standard gacha banner containing standard units of all rarities

Drop Rates

6-Star Character: 0.8%
5-Star Character: 8%
4-Star Character: 91.2%

For the Chartered Headhunting banner, you have a 50% chance to get any featured character if you end up getting a 6-star character in your pulls.

What's Different in Arknights Endfield's Gacha?

Endfield Pity System, Explained

There are quite a few different things here, so we're going to start with the one that most players are curious about: the pity system. Similar to other popular gacha games, Endfield uses a pity system that gives players a 50/50 chance at getting a featured character from ongoing limited-time banners. Hard pity kicks in at the 80-pull mark, and your pulls will carry over to the next banner so long as you haven't reached 80 pulls yet.

The Good

If you lose the 50/50, you only need 40 more pulls to get a guaranteed featured Operator roll at 120 pulls. This safety net only applies once per Chartered banner, though you're guaranteed to get another featured Operator copy every 240 pulls after reaching the 120 mark.

Additionally, you'll get a Headhunting Dossier after 60 pulls on the Chartered banner, which will give you a free 10-pull for the next Chartered Headhunting banner.

Lastly, the featured character in the Chartered Headhunting banner will remain in the next two Chartered Headhunting banners. If, say, you fail to get Levatein before her banner is over, you'll still have a chance to get her when it's Gilberta or Yvonne's turn in the spotlight.

The Bad

If you fail to reach the 120 pulls needed to reach the safety net, none of your pulls will carry over to the next banner. By the time you lose your 50/50 at 80 pulls, you've already entered full gambler mode — it's all or nothing at this point.

Endfield Weapon Banners, Explained

How Does Arsenal Exchange Work?

Endfield has a completely different style of gacha for its weapons. Instead of using Oroberyls or Permits to pull for weapons, you need to spend Arsenal Tickets, which you can get by pulling from Headhunting banners, or by claiming them from the Protocol Pass.

When you go to the Arsenal Exchange page, you'll be bombarded with a bunch of random weapon banners called Issues. The featured weapon Issue that coincides with the Chartered Headhunting banner will always be at the top, and you'll see the rest below. You can even outright buy a weapon using Arsenal Tickets, which is pretty neat.

From here, just pick any Issue you want to pull from, then roll the dice. Weapons have the following drop rates:

6-Star Weapon: 4%
5-Star Weapon: 15%
4-Star Weapon: 81%

You have a 25% chance to get the featured weapon in any Issue whenever you score that perfect 4% roll, and you have a 12.5% chance to get other 6-star weapons.

Weapon soft pity kicks in at 40 pulls, while hard pity triggers at 80.

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